I was going to by pass this video. But decided to listen and lok at the youtube. Beautiful images of black women and poignant homage to the beauty of black women that are often invisable in this society. Thanks Abagond.

Sadly, nowhere on the web are the complete lyrics listed. It cuts off before the rest… let me take you home, come on feel the love…
If you listen to the entire song, towards the end there are more words than what is posted here & on other sites.

I find it strange as most every song has the lyrics printed in their entirety. Except this classic. Maybe one day some lyrics site will do justice to this hit & post the lyrics in their entirety.

I can comment only as a non-black woman. That is a color and hundreds of years of slavery away from where I’d have to be to understand what it feels like watching and hearing this now, or back in ’69 if you were a black girl.

But I loved it then, love it now, think you married it with the perfect pictures, and think that gut-strong pieces like this, as much or more than films about civil rights riots and the like, should be part of the education we use to get kids to “get” what it was like, and what it is still too much like.

(Yeah, she DID go there: The prejudice toward lighter skin and thinner lips and noses among many darker peoples around the world, AND the prejudice toward lighter hair, and fuller lips, and blue or green eyes among lighter peoples.)

And all that color bias bullsh#t depending only on what type of flour God chose, how much butter He brushed on, and how much chocolate He added before baking. Ridiculous. We’re all delicious, yes?